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Ostrovsky: Born in the year, died in the year. Like, Odo A. Ostr Ovsk Wow. The future playwright of Ostrovsky was born and raised in Zamoskvorechye - this was the name of the city behind the Moscow River, where the merchants and every “simple people” have long been settled: clerks, artisans, small officials. His father, an official who served in court, hoped that his son would become a lawyer.

In the year, Alexander Ostrovsky entered the law faculty of Moscow University. But the closer he got acquainted with the legislation and proceedings, the less he liked the career of a lawyer. Irreibly attracted Ostrovsky art. Together with his comrades, he tried not to miss more than one interesting performance, read a lot and argued about literature, passionately fell in love with music.

At the same time, he himself tried to write poetry and stories. Since then - and for life - Belinsky has become the highest authority in art for him.

Having cooled for classes at the university, Ostrovsky left the teaching. For several years, at the insistence of his father, he served as a small official in court. Here the future playwright has seen enough human comedies and tragedies. More than once he had to participate in court cases of malicious bankruptcy. Before the young Ostrovsky, the world of profit, deceit, arbitrariness and humiliation was increasingly opening.

Creates of honest life. Finally disappointed in judicial activity, Ostrovsky wants to become a writer in order to pronounce “his trial over life” in a “lively, elegant form”. He chooses the field of the playwright, since "dramatic poetry is closer to the people than all other branches of literature." This is how the appearance of the comedy “Your People - Comers to the Comedy!

This play brought Ostrovsky glory. The work of the novice playwright attracted the attention of the authorities. At the report of the censor, Nikolai was the first to draw a resolution: "... it is in vain printed, to play." So the theater doors were closed to Ostrovsky. Many years later, he wrote: “A novice author who has one or two plays is prohibited should be involuntarily afraid of everything.

A broad thought came to him - he shortens her; The brisk phrases occurred - he smoothes them ... ”After that, Ostrovsky creates the comedy“ Poverty is not vice ”, where social inequality was denounced, the rights of the human person were defended. In the second half, at the time of the new public upsurge, Ostrovsky became a regular employee of the magazine "Contemporary". The first two -volume collected works of Ostrovsky came out in the year.

Critic N. Dobrolyubov calls the works of the playwright "plays of life." He creates realistic pictures of reality. The playwright managed to express the desire of the people to liberate the oppression of the "dark kingdom." Creating a "thunderstorm". During the summer and autumn, Ostrovsky wrote the drama "Thunderstorm". The drama was printed in the year, during the period of public upsurge, when the foundations of serfdom cracked and a thunderstorm was really gathering in a stuffy, alarming atmosphere.

In Russian literature, thunderstorm has long been the personification of the struggle for freedom. The Ostrovsky thunderstorm is not just a magnificent phenomenon of nature, but a social shock. The drama reflected the rise of the social movement, the moods that lived the advanced people of the era of the 50s. The audience met a new work of Ostrovsky enthusiastically. In the work of Ostrovsky, a whole era of Russian life was reflected - from yy to the e years.

Here are the most significant work of the 70th years: “Forest”, “Wolves and Sheep”, “Associated”, “Talents and Fans”. The play "The Diva" was published 19 years after the "Thunderstorm" - in the year. The recognition, sympathy and support of the advanced part of society have always been a source of vigor for Ostrovsky, helped to forget about adversity and disease.

The playwright has repeatedly said - "My task is to serve Russian dramatic art." He did not fight at a duel like Lermontov, did not serve hard labor like Dostoevsky, did not fight at the fourth bastion of Sevastopol as a fat. Life lived a homebody and at a conscious age only once changed the apartment: he moved from one Moscow street to another. I reluctantly wrote letters.